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Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero is the first book of his second series set in the Percy Jackson universe where kids with ADHD and dyslexia and one missing parent are all demigods.

This one begins with the hero, Jason, waking up on a bus to discover himself without a memory, but with a best friend and a girlfriend who insist he’s been their friend for ages and ages and ages.

It’s hard to write this review without being spoilerific, so I’m going to be pretty vague on the details. There’s a mechanical dragon, giants and monsters and gods and goddesses both helping and harming the heros (including one surprise) and a bunch of lonely teenagers get to do some seriously kick ass stuff. Even the girls. Sometimes especially the girls.

There is nothing deep about this series of books. It’s not a metaphor for anything, and nothing in them contains any significance for anything in our world – except perhaps that parents should do their jobs and actually parent.

That said, these books are well written adventures with a diverse cast and interesting twists on old myths. I look forward to each one and am satisfied when I have finished it.

But whatever you do, don’t go see the movie based on the first one. It sucked. Stick to the books.

(Oh, and the next one, The Son of Neptune, is up as well. I have it on hold at the library)

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Liking ‘The Lost Hero’

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